RPR Mobile™

When I run a search on an address on my iPad all i get is a black screen. I have to shut the app down completely to get back to main menu. I can click run report on landing page. Get to the point of adding comps, click on a listing to check it out. There is no way to go back to the comp list. Have to shut down the app and start again. Click on random anything you might end up on a black screen and have to restart. On top of the fact that i may be mid report creating and it crashes. Have to start over. So no matter what you do, you will either have to restart the app and thus restart a report or it will just shut down on you and you have to restart. So if you are quickly trying to run a report while out with clients. Don’t plan on it being quick, easy, or typically even possible. Such a shame that lots of the apps for realtors are not very good yet.

Unfortunately, I have major issues with RPR on a regular basis. The app crashes constantly, causing me to restart any search I was mid-way through from scratch. There is no option to simply send the MLS Client full, which I would LOVE, many of my clients don’t need the whole report but I would love to send them an interactive Client full listing page where they can look through pics and NOT go through Zillow, Redfin, etc. another issue is that it doesn’t pull all of the info from RMLS. Many times the agent notes say “call owner” for scheduling showing, yet the RPR listing doesn’t pull the 1st and 2nd constant fields from the listing. It also doesn’t integrate to showing time for those that request scheduling via showing. It is a great idea, but not quite there for me. And the crashing makes it even harder to search anything longer than a few minutes. I really want to love it...but for today’s mobile-age, it doesn’t quite cut it.

This is great! Don’t rely on it as your only source of data, of course, as it shouldn’t be a primary tool for generating reports or connecting with clients or doing searches, etc., but as a supplemental tool all its quirks and flaws are immediately forgiven the first time the app bails you out of a tight spot with a client on hand during a property search, or makes you look just a bit more hardworking and professional when you manage to generate a well timed report from your phone on the fly. Of course there’s an understanding that: A. the app team is always looking to improve the product, and consequently they acknowledge and address issues to the extent that they can, and B. Considering the pros and cons, the useful benefits from what this app does well far outweigh any aggravation caused by what it does poorly. On top of all that it’s free to me as an agent! This just rocks! And yes, I know that part of our agent dues are spent on things like this app, and that those dues maybe better used elsewhere, but I can say that from my point of view this is just the kind of thing I can give a thumbs up to finding from my dues. Many of the other uses for the money every realtor pays just never has a concrete return in the form of something that clearly and demonstrably benefits the individual realtor (which is not to make a judgement as to their benefits to individuals one way or another; rather to simply say you can’t hold them and see them as clearly... a long rambling ending to a review that could have been shortened to this: “A must have for every real estate professional, if only as a backup source of info.” One last note for realtors who have “free” access to this service: if you can make use of the app at all, for free, it just makes no sense at all not to have it on hand for those times when it gives you that little edge. To not have it would be like going to a prepaid dinner party and deciding not to have a single bite or a sip to drink, not even the water... what a waste! Find something you like in the app and use it to your advantage , then tell the app team to improve it accordingly. You’ll be doin everyone a favor, and you’ll be having at least a little dessert or an appetizer in exchange for what you pay yearly to be part of the NAR ;)